Thursday, November 28, 2013

New fiction from A.A. Garrison: The Storms of Pemberton, a novel of paranormal horror.

Blurb:

Pemberton? Yeah, I been there. Take a right at the light,
and you’ll see the sign. There’s not much to it, I’m afraid. Still, they got a
right nice hospital, darned if I know why. It rains there, I hear.

Me? I don’t go down there, if I can help it.

You hear things about
Pemberton, if you reckon. My cousin, Annie, she popped a flat coming down that
valley last year, and, well ... I shouldn’t say no more about that, with her
still in the psych ward.

You know they never did find that mayor that went missing?
And he ain’t the only one – are all kinds
of people who’ve got gone around Pemberton, if you can believe what you hear.

But, it don’t prove nothing, I suppose. You hear these
things; but you hear lots of things. And as for Annie, she’s had her one right
hard time, with the doctors talking about ‘post-trauma’ stress and delusions. And,
well ... you hear lots of things.

I’ll say this, mister. If you’re heading through them parts,
keep your windows up and your doors locked. And take a spare tire. Ain’t nobody
should go around without a spare.

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

In this collection of 14 speculative short stories, author
A.A. Garrison takes us to Ford, North
Carolina, a sleepy little mountain town named after a
Civil War deserter. Though out of the way, the town seems to attract an
immoderate share of the fantastic and the macabre.

Amongst Ford’s citizens are:

Blake
(“The Fifty”), who purchases revenge with a fifty-dollar bill

Candy
Patrice (“Cloyed”), a young woman who adopts a most unorthodox diet-plan

And
The Narrator (“The Center”), a man who saw the face of God and forgot his
own name

But don’t let them scare you off. The town isn’t all bad. We’ll
grab a bite at the Burger Boy and then see the Cado Kid show tonight. It’s
really a fine little burg, a place you could settle down. Welcome to Ford.

Monday, November 11, 2013

Cross Ghost in the
Shell with Alice in Wonderland,
and you’ll come to appreciate Hildy’s situation.

What is the mysterious stone column? Where did it come from?
And why did she have to find it?
These are the questions which confront Ms. Hildy Turner, small-town dog groomer
and the stone-column doohickey's unfortunate inheritor. There are no answers,
but she knows this: pressing the column's end opens a doorway to another world,
which she and her best friend have mistakenly entered. Can they find their way back
home? And just what's with the dreamlike nature of the places they end up in?

It's a long, strange trip, with sidetracks into the future,
the distant past, and everywhere in between, a journey that can only be
described as other.